Paytm

Backend - Technical Lead

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1 year ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable backend architectures for systems supporting billions of transactions.
  • Build and operate backend systems serving 100M+ daily active users.
  • Optimize APIs to achieve sub-50ms latency.
  • Lead technology-focused projects and own high-scale distributed systems.
  • Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
  • Use GPT and other AI coding tools for architecture design, prototyping, code reviews, and developer productivity.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on backend engineering experience.
  • Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and AWS.
  • Proven ownership of high-scale distributed systems.
  • Deep knowledge of messaging systems, caching, storage optimization, and cloud scalability.
  • Strong architectural thinking and the ability to design systems for billions of transactions.
  • Strong leadership, mentoring, and code-review skills.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, preferably from a Tier 1/2 college.
  • Experience using or willingness to use GPT, Copilot, and other AI coding tools.

Benefits

  • Ownership of real-world, high-scale systems and critical user-impacting platforms.
  • Opportunity to work with AI-assisted development and grow toward principal engineer, architect, or CTO roles.
  • Pure technology-focused team environment with limited unnecessary meetings and bureaucracy.

Tech Stack

AWSJavaSpring Boot

Categories

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